Despite the challenges, we were seeing free and democratic Iraq, we were
living the hard laboring moment we believe that every one of us has
duty towards our beloved country. By our hands, work, thoughts, sacrifice
we will build up the new Iraq.

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

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Wisconsin's war on animals and children - 12 year old bow hunters mean wounded and tortured wildlife - traps are back

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WOLF KILL HEARING

on the four and a half month annual killing season of the WOLF delisted Jan. 27 - 800 wolves to have packs of dogs run on them 24 hours a day (night hunting with dogs), trapping them, crossbows, guns, shining, shooting from roads.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

10:30 AM300 SoutheastState CapitolMadison, Wisconsin

FROM LINDA RANDOLF:

I attended the Natural Resources Executive committee in the assembly - Democrat and Republican alike - all wolf haters. The only amendment that passed was taking out the allowance for any landowner at any time to kill any wolf on sight without a license. What stayed in ?

They refused to shorten the four and a half month "season" a month. They still want to let hunters shoot from the road, shine wolves with flashlights to confuse and block their ability to see to defend themselves;

they kept in night hunting with dogs ( a safety issue for their dogs and them - the wolves of course are meant to be harmed), so they said they would be hunting wolves 24 hours a day with packs of dogs,

and mentioned that they would be killing pups and "pregnant bitches".

They will use crossbows, bows and arrows and any gun with a bullet bigger than a BB.

Please come Tuesday if this is not the Wisconsin you want. If you could RSVP to me, that would be great.

The following bills also will have hearings that day:

Assembly Bill 384 USE OF CROSSBOWS FOR ANYONE OVER AGE 12 on most wildlife, including wolves

Relating to: weapons that may be used to hunt certain animals and requirements for establishing open hunting seasons for those animals.

Relating to: authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to collect voluntary contributions in addition to fees charged for certain approvals, authorizing the voluntary contributions to be paid to the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin, and making an appropriation.

Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd captain, who fights the Japanese whaling ships, wrote "You can't love and respect nature with a gun" when he quit the National Sierra Club Board of Directors in protest of their spending hundreds of thousands of dollars recruiting hunters to membership. Of the wolf, he wrote,

"I followed a trail of blood for over a mile to discover an aerial gut-shot wolf staring at me in fear and bewilderment.

What I have observed in the wild is suffering. It was plainly evident and I felt remorse for the arrogance of our species for justifying the taking of lives for sport, for enjoyment, for fun, and for pleasure."